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Thx for your reply. :-) Something that I've not yet explained because it's a solution difficult to transpose to other cases : my bridge TV Classic has a switch for parallel option. Somehow. I mean: the switch puts it in parallel with a home made dummy coil itself in series with a resistor, in...

My bad, I'm sorry: you made me realize that TV Jones now sells Classic's with 4 wires... It's clearly mentioned in the "wiring notes": https://tvjones.com/tv-classic-bridge-universal-mount/ My own Classic's are wired like these ones, for the record, and the last one that I've bought had still...

TV Jones Classic's have a very low inductance, setting their resonant peak very high in the audio range... Mines measure hardly more than 1.9H and 1.6H, for the record (it's twice less than an underwound T-Top for the bridge unit). That and their powerful magnet make them "naturally" gritty in...

Yes, I see it a question of length as well, at least "to some extent": in my book, fillisters simply contain more inductive iron because of their mass and shape (plain instead of hollowed). And I don't see them as protuding only under the baseplate but also over the coil in most cases. Even...

Less attack because of more eddy currents, a tiny wee bit more output because of a tad more inductance... More logical than placebo, to me, FWIW. ;-)

In order to contextualize my own humble attempt to help (and for the fun, mine at least), let's share a few spectral analysis of humbuckers played in chords, direct to the board. Below is a hi-gain HB (not a Full Shred but having the same inductance), fitted with an A5 then a C8 magnet...

Welcome onboard. Hot rails are a different animal, with a specific way to filter harmonics due to their narrower coils and a higher inductance than a Full Shred... It seems logical to feel the latter as brighter sounding. Among the magnets that you mention, I'd personally try A2 first. It...

I see why Fender did mount 1M pots in the Jaguar: shorter scale of the guitar = stronger fundamental notes... claws around the coils = 1/3 more inductance and a lower Q factor = flatter and lower pitched resonant peak (hence the darker tone marcello252 did notice with 250k pots)... Now, the...

It might have sounded good, depending on the wiring / pickups / guitar / rig involved... :) Sure, low inductance / hi Q factor / hi flux strenght single coils tend to prefer low resistance controls... but all single coils don't have such specs. In Jaguar pickups like those mentioned by...

OK, I've spent a few minutes to do ultra quick tests with what I had at disposal. All pics show the crude (intentionally not "normalized") response of humbuckers when excited through an ultra low impedance air coil, with volume full up then lowered. Vertical steps of 3dB. Below is the hi-gain...

Hi-gain pickups can clean up efficiently when their volume pot is used. Yesterday, I was surprised again by how well I can do that with a 16k ceramic HB that I've built, albeit it had no treble bleed circuit - but no tone pot either: just a 500k volume... and a very short / low capacitance...

It seems to be systematically forgotten that back in the days, P.A.F. users were often plugging their LP's to the amp through a very long and/or coily cable shifting their tone toward high mids... That's why PRS did design the Santana Sweet Switch, after all. On this basis, I'd try to mimic the...

Mate, my post was not meant to correct anyone... I totally agree with you regarding what you said above. The rails series is officially "for modern players", anyway. My point was just to ramble like the old fart that I am, about the paradox of Bill Lawrence designs and their contemporary...

It's interesting to note that Jonny Lang plays the Blues on rails humbuckers for decades... and that Willi Lorenz Stich, a.k.a Bill Lawrence (RIP), was a jazzman under the name of Billy Lorento before to design rails humbuckers with clear tones as a goal (he said somewhere that he hated the...

Initially, this reply was sharing a link toward another topic discussing this question. I've decided to edit it out in order to avoid an endless controversial argument. Let's just recall that I've not evoked this kind of issues as being typical of normally functioning pickups. I've clearly...